Development and transformation of social structures

Civilization: mesopotamia

Name: sarah moldenhauer





Theme
How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Gender roles and relations
  • men dominated public life
  • some women were preistesses,educated or scribes,midwives, sjopkeepers, brewers, bakers, tavern keepers, and textile manufacturers.
Family and kinship
  • men were known as "tha kings of their home"
  • men took over some house ork like their wives did
Racial and ethnic constructions
  • people who came from poor families were not as highly thought of of those people of a royal or higher class family
Social and economic classes
  • priests and proestesse lived in tmeples recieving food etc.
  • slaves were prisoners of war
  • slaves ere convicted criminals
  • some slaves became sell outs meaning they sold themselves out to satisfy their obligation